Antique Spanish Colonial Presidio Soldier\'s Lance Spear Pike 1700s-Sonora mexico
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Antique Spanish Colonial Presidio Soldier\'s Lance Spear Pike 1700s-Sonora mexico:
$200.00
This is a rare Spanish Colonial presidio soldier\'s ( aka \"Lancer\") hand forged iron lance head or spear point. 9\" inches long by 2\' wide, and in excellent solid condition. Dates to the mid 1700s . Presidio soldiers were distinguished from Spanish regulars not only in having been born and reared in the frontier provinces and thus adapted to harsh conditions. In addition to standard weapons of Spanish regulars (musket, pistols, and saber), soldados de cuera carried a lance, a shield, and a heavy coat of leather armor. When the Spanish frontier expanded northward from central Mexico, the presidio, the mission, and the civil settlement became related frontier institutions for supporting Spanish colonization. Spanish missions generally were accompanied by presidios. By the early eighteenth century, Spaniards Presidios stretched across the southwest from Texas to California. This lance spear was found in sonora, mexico in a pueblo.
Antique Spanish Colonial Presidio Soldier\'s Lance Spear Pike 1700s-Sonora mexico:
$200.00